Spring-mounted bed-bottom.



- Patented May 2|, l90l.

BRAND.

SPRING MOUNTED BED BOTTUM,

(Application'flled June 27, 1900.)

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GEORGE BRAND, OF SOUTHFIELDS, NEW YORK.

SPRING-MOUNTED BED-BOTTOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 674,364., dated May 21, 1901.

Application filed June 27, 1900. Serial No. 21,773- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE BRAND, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Southfields, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Spring-Mounted Bed-Bottoms, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in bed-bottoms for bedsteads, and has for one object to increase the comfort of the user and particularly to improve in this direction those bed bottoms wherein a resilient fabric is stretched from one end of the bed-bottom to the other.

Another object of the invention is to add to any form of bed-bottom a resiliency that shall extend equally to all parts thereof.

With these objects in view the invention consists in the formation, construction, and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 shows in plan a bed-bottom equipped with my improved device. Fig. 2 shows in perspective one corner of a bed-bottom with my improvement attached thereto, and Fig. 3 shows a modified form of such improvement.

In bed-bottoms having a Woven wire top or flexible top supported resiliently at the ends of the bed-bottom there is no resiliency at their ends. In order to add resiliency to such bed-bottoms at their ends and to make such added resiliency extend through the entire bed-bottom, I secure at each corner of the bed-bottom a resilient device by which it may be supported upon the bedstead. Such device may vary greatly in its formation and mode of attachment. It is preferable, however, to so construct it that the desired amplitude of movement for the bed-bottom may be obtained without raising the same too far above the average height of other bed-bottoms. This may best be accomplished by the device illustrated in Fig. 2. Therein an elbow-lever 4 is shown as pivoted at its angle to the side rail 5 of a bed-bottom. The lower end of the lever 4 is preferably provided with a projection, as 6, for engagement with the side rail of a bedstead. From the upper arm of the lever a spring, preferably in spiral form, as shown at 7, extends to the end of the bed-bottom, to which it may be attached in any suitable manner, as by connecting with a staple or eye 8, formed upon or secured to the end rail 9 of the bed-bottom or, preferably, the upper end of the corner-piece 10f To limit the movement of the lever 4 in response to the tension of said spring, any suitable stop may be employed. One conveniently formed for this purpose is shown at 11, and consists of a lug projecting laterally from the cornerpiece 10.

In the place of the lever and spring just described any other resilient device or spring may be employed-such, for example, as a plate-spring 12. (Represented in Fig. 3.) This spring may be connected to a lug, as 13, formed on the side of the corner-piece l0 and provided with suitable pins or projections 14 at its ends for engagement with the side rail of a bedstead. The end pieces 9 of the bedbottom may be stopped in their descent in any suitable Way, as by their coming to rest upon said lever, as at 16, or upon the side rail, if preferred. It is immaterial whether the side rails of the bed-bottom are metal and of the form illustrated or whether they be of wood. It is alsoimmaterial whether the side rails of the bedstead (indicated at 15) are of metal or of wood. The bed-bottom equipped with my device will operate the same under any of these circumstances.

Other changes in the formation and construction of parts and their association with one another may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination with a bed-bottom, of a lever pivoted thereto at each corner thereof, a spring connecting one end of each lever to said bottom and means at the lower end of each lever for engaging a bedstead and supporting the bed-bottom thereon.

2. A bed-bottom provided at each corner with an elbow-lever pivoted to the side rail thereof and adapted to engage with the side rail of a bedstead for the support of said bottom, and a spring connecting the upper arm of each lever to the bed-bottom, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination with a bed-bottom, of a lever at each corner thereof pivoted to the side rail of the bed-bottom and having a lug at its lower end for engagement with the side Signed at New York, in the county of Ormii of a bedstead, a spring connected to one ange and State of New York, this 23d day of arm of the lever and to the end of the bed- June, A. D. 1900.

bottom, and a lug extending from the bed- GEORGE BRAND. bottom and serving as EL stop to limit the move- Witnesses:

inentof the lever, as and for the purpose set DELBERT H. DECKER,

forth. ETHEL L. LAWL R. 

